Primary Source, Open, News, and Government Information
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment This link opens in a new windowPrimary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.
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Indigenous Peoples of North America This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection for exploration of the political, social, and cultural history of native peoples from the sixteenth century well into the twentieth century. The collection features indigenous-language materials, including dictionaries, bibles, and primers.
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Archives Library Information CenterDigital Native American History collections from the National Archives.
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American Indian Digital History ProjectA Digital History Cooperative founded to recover and preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America.
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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains CollectionThe Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Collection includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's. In 1998, the images were digitized and drawn from the library collections of three of the Montana State University campuses (Billings, Bozeman and Havre), the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, and Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency, Montana.
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Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource CenterThe Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and scholars around the globe. This website represents an effort to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of resources that are physically preserved in various locations around the country. Through these resources, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding of the school and its complex legacy, while also facilitating efforts to tell the stories of the many thousands of students who were sent there.
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Blackfoot Digital LibraryThe Blackfoot Digital Library is a place for our stories, past and present, and is intended to be an educational resource for all those now living in kitáwahsinnoon.
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Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new windowDigitized Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada, from historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, find coverage of events reported by and for Indigenous communities.
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National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-1994 This link opens in a new windowSearch for images, maps, cartoons, paintings; browse magazines from 1888-1994.
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Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowFull text for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines.
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Independent Voices"Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century."
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Native ViewpointNative Viewpoint is a multimedia Native and Indigenous guided storytelling website created in the spirit of the Native peoples of Turtle Island and beyond.
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IndianzNative American news, information and entertainment.
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Tribal College JournalNews from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
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Bureau of Indian AffairsWebsite for the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the United States Government.
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Treaties ExplorerThe Indigenous Digital Archive’s Treaties Explorer, DigiTreaties.org, was created by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in partnership with the US National Archives Office of Innovation and National Archives Foundation. Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, the US National Archives conserved and digitized the 374 Ratified Indian Treaties in its holdings.
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American Indians in Children's LiteartureEstablished in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books. Dr. Jean Mendoza joined AICL as a co-editor in 2016.
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Native American Indian Legends and FolkloreThis page is our collection of Native American folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. We have indexed these stories tribe by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same native legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other.
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Invasion of AmericaInteractive map of every Native American land cession between 1776 and 1887.
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Native Land DigitalAn app designed to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages.
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More than SurvivingMore Than Surviving is a project by Master’s candidates in the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center. It is, first and foremost, a celebration of Wampanoag political agency, ingenuity, and persistence. Although this project currently focuses on the antebellum era (1815–1861; leading up to the Civil War), at any point in Wampanoag history, there are ample instances of activity that embody a core cultural understanding of the interconnectivity and value of all beings. This underlying worldview comes to life in many different forms—this project seeks to explore its expression via political action.
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Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA)"The heart of the collection is the recordings, both audio and video, in a wide range of genres: narratives, chants, oratory, conversations, songs, and more. Many recordings are transcribed and translated into Spanish, English or Portuguese. The archive also contains a wealth of language documentation materials: grammars, dictionaries, ethnographies, and field notes. The collection includes teaching materials for bilingual education and language revitalization programs. We are committed to serving the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the scholars who study their languages."
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Empire Online (1492-1692)Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material covering colonial history, politics, culture and society from 1492 to 1962.
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Native American Media AllianceThe Native American Media Alliance is a community based organization that provides the genuine voice of Native Americans in the entertainment industry and offers unique programs that educate the non-Native population.
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Indigenous Game DevelopersIndigenous Game Devs is an independent and self-determined, grassroots community of Indigenous people working in video game development and academia from around the world.
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American Indian Film GalleryThe AIFG presently contains over 450 non-fiction films that document Native lifeways from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, with a large concentration on peoples of the Southwest. The films range from a 1922 silent newsreel to recent footage of pow-wows and political meetings in 2011. The majority of the films date to the golden age of U.S. educational and sponsored filmmaking, after World War II up to the advent of portable video.